Friday, March 18, 2011

A Quick Way to Speed Up Facebook Loading Speed

MALAYSIA – Facebook is loading slow after the Japan earthquake? It is because the submarine telecommunications cable system has been affected by the disaster. Here you will learn how to re-route your Facebook connection to Malaysia hosted Facebook proxy server for faster loading speed.

Solution: Find a new route

In order to get back the Facebook connection speed, we Malaysians need to bypass the server in Hong Kong. Thanks to HeHeHunter.net, he has discovered a Facebook proxy server [203.106.85.66] (Akamai) hosted locally in Malaysia.
Now, you need to FORCE your computer to use the IP address to access Facebook.com. You need to edit HOSTS file on your computer.

How to change default Facebook route

Here are the instructions for Windows/Linux/Mac OS X users. (HeHeHunter.net has the credit for Windows and Linux instructions)